Hi, and Tomtom 740 Live Questions

veedub18 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 11, 2009 Posts: 4

Hi everyone
I've been browsing around here for a while so decided to join up Very Happy

Nice to meet you all.

I'm into Sat Navs, a bit sad really but I think they are a valuable tool if you like to travel Europe by car (which I love to do) Smile

I have recently bought a Tomtom 740 Live, and well pleased with it, but have a few questions if anyone could help at all?

It has a port for a mini SD card, whats the largest that will work in the device, as I'm looking at putting movies on it to watch when not driving?
Does anyone recommend movie software, I dont mind if I need to pay for it, as long as its decent, and doenst mess the Tomtom up from being a sat nav. Oh, and I've got a BMW, can I make it look the same colour as the dash lights (orange)?

Thanks for any help good people Cool

mikealder · Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forum, the largest card your device will support is a 32GB MicroSDHC type card, these are still rather costly so consider a couple of 16GB cards if you need that amount of storage as it works out cheaper!

As for software to play video I did load up MobilNova click Here to my 940 a while back, there is also Makayama available from Here (try the free trial before committing to it) Or one other is the Tom Player from Here In any case, please make sure you have a full Windows Explorer backup BEFORE you add anything like this to your device just in case it all goes pear shaped!

As for changing the colour scheme it is possible, one application available as Freeware is CSE Color Scheme Editor which you can get from Here - That little lot should keep you rather busy for a day or two! - Mike

veedub18 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 11, 2009 Posts: 4

Wow!

Thanks Mike, thats a great help, really useful indeed. I'm off to order a card now. Awesome!

Kind regards

Stuart

veedub18 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 11, 2009 Posts: 4

Ok guys, I have just had a Micro SD card delivered to go in my 740, any recommendations on what "Allocation Unit Size" to format it with please? My vista PC defaults it to Fat and 32kilobytes, would that be ok, or should it be FAT32?

Many thanks

mikealder · Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject:

FAT32 is the format you should use - Mike

veedub18 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 11, 2009 Posts: 4

Thanks Mike Very Happy

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:20 am Post subject:

But AFAIK, there is no need to format the card before you use it at all. New SDHC and MicroSD cards all come formatted to FAT32.
(and any card of 4GB or larger would need to use FAT32 anyway, as FAT cannot handle those sizes)

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